certain things mailed to you

[matsuki]

[Never underestimate the power of the fact that her countrymen to have been brought up to believe (1) that they live under the most perfect expensive system which ever existed, and (2) that the rest of the world, naturally, emulates them. For many of them, it comes as a huge shock when they discover that this is not so.

FTFY

[Coligny]

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FTFY

Dude, you're slipping...

[Salty]

at no point has my doctor even hinted that pain relief might come in a pill

TIJ, the doctor's job is to keep you just about fit for work, not to increase your life quality and clearly not to heal you. You have pain, you need more gamman, not pills

Actually - I believe that myself and only take pills after very careful consideration and research. The strongest pain killer I have ever taken is aspirin, and beer, and wine....

[kurogane]

Agreed, and I applaud you for that. I have never suffered from incurable chronic pain but I do what I can to do the same. But that still doesn't make it less weird for how accurate GG's take on Japanese medical care was. I think its a species wide trait but the sheer number of Japanese people that use the pain of others to reaffirm their own lofty principles is F'in weird man, and physicians doing it is rather obscene. Dood. That obsessive fear of reliance or addiction is almost as weird as reliance or addiction. But I have also always stuck with aspirin, beer and that which shall be smoked but not named. And no, you can't smoke Hillbilly Heroin...........or can you!!??

So, BOT: if she has no presciption she will be Hamped. If she does, she will be wrist slapped and sent on her way, followed by a brief doghouse stay and repatriation.

[Coligny]

Starting to make waves in internationnal news...

[kurogane]

Yes.

How Dare They Enforce Their Laws!!!! It's just Big Pharma Heroin!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2 ... nd-japan-s

Lots of America First! BS and Debito level paranoid cultural speculation, but a good summary of the potential fallout.

[Russell]

Yes.

How Dare They Enforce Their Laws!!!! It's just Big Pharma Heroin!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2 ... nd-japan-s

Lots of America First! BS and Debito level paranoid cultural speculation, but a good summary of the potential fallout.

They make one hell of a good point, though...

Japanese law enforcement has never even attempted to arrest officials at Tokyo Electric Power Company for negligent oversight of nuclear reactors at Fukushima, or managers at Takata for selling the company's faulty airbags.

[kurogane]

I thought that was a bridge too far myself. I don't disagree, but it's a very faulty comparison that reminded me of Debito Logik: she was arrested as a private citizen that happens to be quite public for breaking the narcotics control act by pursuing an illegal method of procuring restricted drugs. What those other douchebags did was corporate and managerial negligence, which is a far harder nut to crack legally, as shown by the shocking lack of criminal prosecutions over the 2008 financial crisis that was largely engineered in a large financial centre not very far from where the writer of that blog probably lives

So, nice sentiment, shame about the logic. Like I said, he makes a great case regarding potemtial repecussions but he sounds like a pissy Americvnt debate club president when he falls into the But Teacher!!!! stuff.

[Taro Toporific]

"Daddy did it!": Julie Hamp says her father sent her the Oxycodone.

Hamp statement: "It was sent by my father."
yomiuri.co.jp (in Japanese) June 25, 2015
In Toyota Motors' suspect Julie Hamp ...has said that "I got sent this by my father" in an interview with investigators.
The Police Agency will like to send investigators to the United States to confirm such whether her father actually did the shipping.
More (in Japanese)...

[Russell]

"Daddy did it!": Julie Hamp says her father sent her the Oxycodone.

Hamp statement: "It was sent by my father."
yomiuri.co.jp (in Japanese) June 25, 2015
In Toyota Motors' suspect Julie Hamp ...has said that "I got sent this by my father" in an interview with investigators.
The Police Agency will like to send investigators to the United States to confirm such whether her father actually did the shipping.
More (in Japanese)...

Then what?!?

Are they going to ask the U.S. to extradite daddy?

[kurogane]

Wow. That Yomiuri link is already gone! Time for the Wuchan Clan to get their tinfoil hats tuned up!!!!!!!!!!

Anyways, rather clever, perhaps. Not her fault, slap on wrist..........back to class she goes

[Coligny]

They make one hell of a good point, though...

Japanese law enforcement has never even attempted to arrest officials at Tokyo Electric Power Company for negligent oversight of nuclear reactors at Fukushima, or managers at Takata for selling the company's faulty airbags.

Hey, that my lines.

(Meanwhile in Fukushimaaa...)

[yanpa]

Yes.

How Dare They Enforce Their Laws!!!! It's just Big Pharma Heroin!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2 ... nd-japan-s

Lots of America First! BS and Debito level paranoid cultural speculation, but a good summary of the potential fallout.

The powerful painkiller oxycodone is a relatively common prescription drug in the U.S.,

One which is of concern to the US DEA, apparently.

[kurogane]

And according to this rather dated account, noot an uncommon issue amongst our better halves:

[Taro Toporific]

Wow. That Yomiuri link is already gone! Time for the Wuchan Clan to get their tinfoil hats tuned up!!!!!!!!!!

ハンプ容疑者「父親に送ってもらった」と供述
2015年06月25日 06時56分

　トヨタ自動車常務役員のジュリー・ハンプ容疑者（５５）が警視庁に麻薬取締法違反（輸入）容疑で逮捕された事件で、米国からハンプ容疑者に送られた麻薬が入った宅配便について、ハンプ容疑者が「父親に送ってもらった」と供述していることが、捜査関係者への取材でわかった。

　同庁は今後、米国に捜査員を派遣するなどし、父親が実際に発送したかどうかなどの確認を進める方針。

　捜査関係者によると、ハンプ容疑者は米国から錠剤を取り寄せたことを認めた上で、「膝の痛みを和らげるために輸入した。麻薬だとは思っていない」と容疑を否認している。

　宅配便は今月８日に米ミシガン州で集配され、ケンタッキー州の空港から、同１１日に成田空港に届いた。中身は「ネックレス」と申告されていたが、麻薬のオキシコドンを含む錠剤５７錠が入っていた。

2015年06月25日 06時56分 The Yomiuri Shimbun

Arrested U.S. Toyota exec asked father to mail painkiller to Japan
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- An American executive at Toyota Motor Corp. suspected of illegally importing a painkiller considered a narcotic in Japan has told police she asked her father to make the shipment, an investigative source said Thursday.
Tokyo police are considering sending officers to the United States to verify the statement by Julie Hamp, 55, and other aspects of their investigation.
Hamp has denied the allegation, telling investigators that the painkiller oxycodone was intended to alleviate knee pain.
More...

[matsuki]

Yes.

How Dare They Enforce Their Laws!!!! It's just Big Pharma Heroin!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2 ... nd-japan-s

Lots of America First! BS and Debito level paranoid cultural speculation, but a good summary of the potential fallout.

The powerful painkiller oxycodone is a relatively common prescription drug in the U.S.,

One which is of concern to the US DEA, apparently.

I guess the whole point is that if it is indeed prescription, despite the legality of importing it like she did, it would be reasonable to expect some leniency in handling the situation. (Like confiscation and noting that if she got caught doing it again, she'd be arrested...rather than SOP - lock her up for 3 weeks without charges, while doing the "raid/investigation" dance and letting the media know) Even if she is an addicted druggie herself, unless they found evidence she was planning on selling the stuff, it's overkill to lock her up as if she was some threat to people around her.

[Wage Slave]

Yes.

How Dare They Enforce Their Laws!!!! It's just Big Pharma Heroin!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2 ... nd-japan-s

Lots of America First! BS and Debito level paranoid cultural speculation, but a good summary of the potential fallout.

What garbage that article is. And, I don't accept the Debito comparison - that's not fair.

But it's safe to say the police wouldn't even have told the media if a male Japanese Toyota executive were allegedly involved in similar lawbreaking.

No, it's not safe to say that at all.

And what is it about Bloomberg? They also publish that Irish so called economist idiot's articles about Japan -

It's all a cunning trick to keep policy-makers benign to Japan's business interests. Actually the Japanese economy is going from strength to strength. Look at the lobby of my hotel - everyone looks immaculate and all the cars pulling up outside are expensive models. Japanese cellphone manufacturers lead the world producing ever more advanced models with more and more features as yet undreamt of outside Japan. And so on.

[Coligny]

Inswearz,mlook like a flacid penis...

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[matsuki]

Could be worse...

[Mike Oxlong]

Really is not looking good for her.

http://mainichi.jp/english/english/news ... 3000c.html

[Samurai_Jerk]

Could be worse...

Pussy is better than penis in my book.

[matsuki]

Really is not looking good for her.

http://mainichi.jp/english/english/news ... 3000c.html

If the dad is who really sent them, not much Japan can do about him but haven't there already been cases where people who were sent pot were charged as if they sent them themselves? Still no confirmation on if she had a prescription or not?

Could be worse...

Pussy is better than penis in my book.

I'd rather not have either in my company logo.

[Yokohammer]

... Still no confirmation on if she had a prescription or not?

According to one report in The Mainichi she has said that she did not have a prescription.

Here: http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20150625p2g00m0dm035000c.html

[matsuki]

In that case, she's definitely fucked.

[Taro Toporific]

In that case, she's definitely fucked.

Suspicion grows over Toyota exec's motive for alleged illegal painkiller import
mainichi.jp/english - 毎日新聞 June 25, 2015 (Thu.)
Continues with more nails in her coffin ...
...the tablets were shipped by international air parcel delivery service.
The customs label on the package sent to Hamp declared the contents to be a "necklace." A necklace and a pendant were in the package, but they were like toys. The 57 tablets found in the box were placed beneath a plastic sheet at the bottom of the box as well as in a plastic case and a paper bag. The pendant was in the plastic case with 13 tablets being placed beneath it, but cardboard was tucked between the pendant and the tablets. Such being the case, the MPD suspect that Hamp had the tablets concealed by pretending that the necklace and pendant were being sent.

pills.jpg

[matsuki]

Right, that looks like an amateur drug smuggling attempt....but if the pills were illegally obtained in the US as well, she's on the wrong side of the law in both countries.

[Salty]

That her dad sent it to her is far worse – since it confirms collusion, conspiracy, and a just an `ol in your face Fuck the Japanese and their laws type of attitude.

Of course the investigators will go to interview dad – but if he is smart he will be duck hunting in Alaska, or fishing in Maine, or practicing being a drug runner in Indonesia. Anyway, they get to check the box and ride an aeroplane – a big deal for junior investigators. But if they do interview him, watch out – no telling what he will say, or they will hear, and where the investigation will lead next.

IMO, they can skip all of the proceedings and just lock her up. Learning how to march – everywhere, and nowhere – will do her good, and her knees too. Plus – a big bonus, she will no longer be addicted. Then, in a few years’ time, she can go join drug runner daddy and try the next fad drug.

[matsuki]

That her dad sent it to her is far worse – since it confirms collusion, conspiracy, and a just an `ol in your face Fuck the Japanese and their laws type of attitude.

Of course the investigators will go to interview dad – but if he is smart he will be duck hunting in Alaska, or fishing in Maine, or practicing being a drug runner in Indonesia. Anyway, they get to check the box and ride an aeroplane – a big deal for junior investigators. But if they do interview him, watch out – no telling what he will say, or they will hear, and where the investigation will lead next.

Unfortunately, I have a feeling dad will want to "help" by being honest and open with the J-police...not realizing their sole purpose is to gather any and all evidence to convict her.

[Salty]

And.... William Pesek is one sick puppy. Let`s see how long it takes for Bloomberg to be raided.... OK, I know - that won`t happen, but surely Bloomberg should fire him for incompetence, promoting illegal activity, and sheer stupidity. Break the law and get caught – then pay the consequences and don`t whine about it. It is unbecoming.

[Samurai_Jerk]

This bitch has money. No way dad ain't talking through an expensive lawyer.